Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2016
Language
English
Keywords
Call Number
TR113.5 .S54 2016
ISBN
9780691151328
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
220
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Photography -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Photography -- Social aspects -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
Abstract
Contents:
An empire of photographs: Abdullah Freres and the Osmanlilik ideology
The Arab imago: Jurji Saboungi and the Nahdah image-screen
The carte de visite: the sociability of new men and women
Writing photography: technomateriality and the verum factum
Portrait paths: the sociability of the photographic portrait
Stabilizing portraits, stabilizing modernity
The latent and the afterimage
The mirror of two sanctuaries and three photographers.